On the other hand, Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI) urged the government to reduce customs duties and rollback health cess in Union Budget 2021-22 to help the medical device sector overcome the severe financial crisis created by COVID-19 pandemic. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus | Pandemic underlined need for higher budget allocation for healthcare sector
Koch public sector
Boris Johnson’s 95% mortgages will put Britain back on course for a house price crash
And rather than subsidising demand, subsidise the supply of land and housing, most obviously via a major public home building programme. Affordable land is often said to be the stumbling block for new housing developments, but the public sector owns huge swathes of underutilised land where building could be undertaken. Rather than flogging off land to the private sector, by keeping housing public the flows of income from social renting and the capital gains on land would flow back to the taxpayer rather than private land owners and banks. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson’s 95% mortgages will put Britain back on course for a house price crash
QUIT NOTICE TO HERDERS: Should be replicated in all Southern and North-Central states — Adamolekun
Bitumen. I’m not sure what has happened there. Regarding education, I interface with the commissioner and I would say that he’s receptive, at least at his level. I’ll put on record that what I’ve suggested to him, he’s bought into it but I think it should be put widely in the state. No Principal of a secondary school should spend less than four years in school. In our days a principal was there 10, 15, 20 years. We’ve passed that stage but at least we cannot be doing six months, one year, six months transfers. The commissioner bought into it but I don’t think it’s become state policy. … [Read more...] about QUIT NOTICE TO HERDERS: Should be replicated in all Southern and North-Central states — Adamolekun
Faraday Future to push forward with EV project in China will enlist Geely’s help: Sources
SHANGHAI: Embattled startup Faraday Future will push ahead with plans to produce some of its fully electric vehicles in China by opening a plant in the country and enlisting China's Geely to provide contract manufacturing services, sources said.The Los Angeles-based startup intends to set up a new base in China as part of those plans, the three sources familiar with the matter said, declining to be named as Faraday Future's plans have not been made public.The company told prospective investors this month it plans to locate the plant in a "tier one Chinese city" and envisions that it will have the capacity to make over 100,000 vehicles a year in its initial phase, one of the sources said, adding Faraday Future is considering to add a research centre in the same city.Zhejiang Geely Holding Group is in talks to provide contract manufacturing services to Faraday Future in China for its mass-market model, two of the sources said. Geely will also help improve the model's engineering and add … [Read more...] about Faraday Future to push forward with EV project in China will enlist Geely’s help: Sources
In UNCTAD address, PM Imran shares five-point agenda to address structural barriers in global prosperity
PM Imran Khan, the keynote speaker for UNCTAD Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Financing for Development (FfD), proposed equitable supply of the coronavirus vaccine in the developing countries and once again appealed for the suspension of debt repayments for the most stressed countries until the end of the pandemic. … [Read more...] about In UNCTAD address, PM Imran shares five-point agenda to address structural barriers in global prosperity